Petrus Ramus had in 1568 found the…

Petrus Ramus had in 1568 found the position of affairs again so threatening that the nfluential French anti-Aristotelian logician had  found it advisable to ask permission to travel, spending around two years in Germany and Switzerland.

The Second Helvetic Confession had earned his disapproval, in 1571, rupturing his relationship with Theodore Beza and leading Ramus to write angrily to Heinrich Bullinger.Having taught successively at Geneva, Lausanne, and Heidelberg for the past two years, had returned to Paris in 1572.

He falls a victim in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, when, after hiding for a while in a bookshop off the Rue St. Jacques, he returns to his lodgings, on August, 26 the third day of the violence.

Here he is stabbed while at prayer.